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What is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://redd.it/v8l8vi

These people keep bringing up "mArKeT sHaRE"

  1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
  2. It's quite difficult to get an accurate "market share" since user-agents can be faked.

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

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[–] 22 points 4 years ago (4 children)

Well duh. "PC" means "Windows", obviously.

sigh

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    "PC" means "Desktop" /s

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Actually, if we're nit-picking, it means "Personal Computer", but the colloquial meaning has shifted somewhat since the good old IBM times to first mean desktop computers (as opposed to laptops), and then to mean non-Apple computers (including laptops), which for most people means "a computer that runs Windows."

    Which is the basis of my heavy sigh.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.

    But now that's not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it's from System76 and meant to run Linux.

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